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It's still a competition to find the best candidate though. They said that over and over during the show. Dancing with the Stars finds the best dancer out of t

It's still a competition to find the best candidate though. They said that over and over during the show. Dancing with the Stars finds the best dancer out of the group, even if they're not pros. Survivor ostensibly finds the best survivor out of the group, even if they're not true outdoorsmen.

michaelt 13y ago
They say over and over in The Sopranos that Tony Soprano is a mobster. That doesn't make it so in reality - that's just the fiction presented to us for our entertainment. To maintain the fiction, the show doesn't wildly contradict it. Reality TV is the same - except the fiction is the competition isn't rigged and its primary goal is to find the best candidate. The show doesn't wildly contradict it, it's just not true.
glenra 13y ago
It's a competition to entertainingly find a best candidate. The core mechanic was the elimination round. Anyone who could consistently beat others given a random topic and limited time was likely to win regardless of what happened in the leading-up rounds. Looking at the strips after the fact, Abby and Katie pretty obviously are writing the best strips. And sure, Abby's is the better of the two, but her concept is harder to distill down to its essence and present - Katie was the only one of the three finalists who was able to competently and interestingly introduce her new strip with just a few sample pages. If you think they picked wrong, who should have won instead? (Note that several of the other cartoonists have been hired by Penny Arcade for other tasks such as doing The Trenches and designing pins. So even if you ignore the publicity aspect there were still multiple winners.)
- brianpgordon 13y ago
  I didn't see enough of their work to judge the early eliminations. They could have been great, I don't know. Of the last two, Abby should have won IMO.
ertdfgcb 13y ago
I haven't had the time to watch this yet, but it seems like they wouldn't let anyone they didn't want to work with on their show.

michaelt 13y ago

They say over and over in The Sopranos that Tony Soprano is a mobster. That doesn't make it so in reality - that's just the fiction presented to us for our entertainment. To maintain the fiction, the show doesn't wildly contradict it. Reality TV is the same - except the fiction is the competition isn't rigged and its primary goal is to find the best candidate. The show doesn't wildly contradict it, it's just not true.

glenra 13y ago

It's a competition to entertainingly find a best candidate. The core mechanic was the elimination round. Anyone who could consistently beat others given a random topic and limited time was likely to win regardless of what happened in the leading-up rounds. Looking at the strips after the fact, Abby and Katie pretty obviously are writing the best strips. And sure, Abby's is the better of the two, but her concept is harder to distill down to its essence and present - Katie was the only one of the three finalists who was able to competently and interestingly introduce her new strip with just a few sample pages. If you think they picked wrong, who should have won instead? (Note that several of the other cartoonists have been hired by Penny Arcade for other tasks such as doing The Trenches and designing pins. So even if you ignore the publicity aspect there were still multiple winners.)

brianpgordon 13y ago
I didn't see enough of their work to judge the early eliminations. They could have been great, I don't know. Of the last two, Abby should have won IMO.

ertdfgcb 13y ago

I haven't had the time to watch this yet, but it seems like they wouldn't let anyone they didn't want to work with on their show.